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Digital System Designer
Company | PsiQuantum |
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Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA |
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Salary | $117000 – $158000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline.
- 4+ years of relevant work or academic research preferred.
- Strong critical thinking, creative, innovative, analytical, and detail oriented problem-solving skills.
- Team player with an ability to work effectively across departments and time-zones.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences.
- Confirmed python programmer who strives to write clear code in the context of a small team of contributors.
- Pro-active, with the ability to work independently with limited direction, in a fast-moving start-up environment.
Responsibilities
- Devising algorithms and methods to solve various time-critical tasks which take place in the data-plane of an optical quantum computer and charting a path to their hardware implementation.
- Defining the hardware primitives for the algorithm.
- Gathering and translating high-level requirements into digital designs actionable by other digital-design experts.
- Working closely with digital designers to arbitrate design choices and optimize designs to meet algorithmic performance while matching latency, throughput and footprint constraints.
- Write python models to be integrated in our proprietary discrete-time-event simulation tool.
Preferred Qualifications
- Distributed system experience: involving event correlation from multiple sources, under real-time constraints.
- Worked with Hardware Definition Languages (e.g, VHDL, Verilog).
- Worked with High Level Synthesis tools (e.g Xilinx Vitis).
- Background in photonics.